Revolutionize Your Retirement Radio
Retirement isn’t just the end of a career, it’s the beginning of a new chapter filled with opportunity, meaning, and growth.
Revolutionize Your Retirement is a podcast designed to help you navigate this transition with purpose, confidence, and joy.
Featuring insightful conversations with leading experts in retirement and longevity. Each episode explores real-world topics like money, purpose, identity, relationships, lifestyle, and health, all aimed at helping you redefine what “retirement” means for you.
Whether you’re planning ahead or already living your next chapter, these conversations offer practical tools and inspiration for embracing the years ahead with curiosity and vitality. Because retirement isn’t just an age or a financial number, it’s a chance to live well today while building confidence for tomorrow.
More About the Host
Dorian Mintzer, M.S.W., Ph.D., BCC (Board Certified Coach) is a coach, therapist, teacher, and writer with extensive clinical experience. She previously taught in a graduate gerontology program at Regis College in Wellesley, MA , and was part of the faculty for the Certified Professional Retirement Coaching 2.0. program.
She is the co-author of The Couples Retirement Puzzle: 10 Must-Have Conversations for Creating an Amazing New Life Together and a contributor to numerous other books and articles on aging, relationships, and purpose. Her insights have been featured in leading media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, NPR, ABC Evening News, and The Today Show.
Her TEDx Talk, “Embracing Your Bonus Years: A Time to Grow, Learn, and Evolve,” captures her belief that later life is a time for reflection, reinvention, and renewed purpose. Through her podcast, coaching, and teaching, Dr. Mintzer continues to empower people to live their later years with intentionality, vitality, and joy.
Dr. Mintzer also hosts the monthly Revolutionize Your Retirement Interview with Experts Series, an engaging webinar held on the 4th Tuesday of each month, offering fresh perspectives to help professionals and the public alike embrace the opportunities of the “bonus years.”
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This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism with Dorian Mintzer and Ashton Applewhite
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Episode Guest: Ashton Applewhite, speaker, author, and activist and the leading spokesperson to mobilize against discrimination based on aging
Episode Description:
From childhood, we're barraged by messages that it's sad to be old. That wrinkles are embarrassing, and older people are useless. Author and activist Ashton Applewhite also believed them until she realized where this prejudice comes from and its damage. In this episode, Ashton will trace her journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-aging radical and, in the process, debunk myth after myth about late life.
In this episode, you'll discover:
- the roots of ageism - in history and our own age denial - and how it divides and debases
- how ageist myths and stereotypes cripple the way our brains and bodies function
- what ageism looks like in the workplace and the bedroom
- the cost of the all-American myth of independence
- how olders are portrayed as burdens to society
- what an all-age-friendly world would look like
- a rousing call to action
Whether you're older or hoping to get there, this episode will shake you by the shoulders, cheer you up, make you mad, and change the way you see the rest of your life. Age pride!
About Ashton Applewhite:
Author and activist Ashton Applewhite is the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism. In 2016, she joined the PBS site Next Avenue's annual list of 50 Influencers in Aging as their Influencer of the Year. Ashton has been recognized by the New York Times, National Public Radio, and the American Society on Aging as an expert on ageism.
She blogs at This Chair Rocks, has written for Harper's, Playboy, and the New York Times, and is the voice of Yo, Is This Ageist? Ashton speaks widely at venues that have ranged from universities and community centers to the TED mainstage and the United Nations. Ashton is a leading spokesperson for a movement to mobilize against discrimination based on age.
Get in touch with Ashton Applewhite:
Visit Ashton's website: https://thischairrocks.com/
Buy Ashton's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/applewhite
Download Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/applewhitehandout
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